MAJOR BUFFER UNDERRUNS!!!

[tkim]

i have a hp 9600 scsi...its a 12x10x32.

when i burn ANYTHING, the buffer (ez cd creator 4) drops from 100% to 0 in 10 seconds!!!!

this happens whenever i choose any burn speed over 4x.

HELP!!!

i have a T21 IBM LAPTOP
192 RAM
PIII 850
the only problem i see is that my company runs win95..could this be it???

 

[LuNoTiCK]

It has dma enabled? I think scsi has that auto enabled though.

 

[bacillus]

is this using the laptop?
is dma enabled for the hdd??

 

[tkim]

yes this is a laptop. should i activate dma for the HD or the cdrw??

i have had buffer underruns on other machines but on this particular cdrw and laptop, it's truly ridiculous!!! i mean....100%--->52%---->1%---->0% --->EJECT!!! another coaster!!! in less than 10 seconds!

 

[thorin]

Have you checked your VCACHE settings?

Thorin

 

[NelsonMuntz]

DMA s/b enabled for both. Does it ever work with any kind of burning? If you burn just a little information does it work? Is it actually making coasters or are they just untouched disks at the end. Within 10 seconds it might not actually have started the burn process and hence destroyed the disk.

 

[bacillus]

<< should i activate dma for the HD or the cdrw?? >>


for the hdd, yes. you'll not be able to manually do this for the scsi cdrw but it will be using it!
have you tested the hdd for its safe max burning speed in ez cd creator?

 

[Atlantean]

You should try closing all the programs you have running, except for the cd creator program. That should bring the speed up a little. Also you should get a different program like maybe musicmatch or something like that

 

[tkim]

i called hp tech support and this is what they made me do.
i had only 61% system resources free so they told me to change all these settings in the system properties.
i rebooted.
then he told me to close everything by ctrl+alt+delete.
i did that.
then i checked the resources, i was at 80% free.

SWEET! i thought.

i tried it again....100%--->80%---> 72%---->down, down, down,-----0%=====ANOTHER COASTER!!


this is a company issued laptop so there are a lot of programs running in my sys tray. i think that might be the problem. to much BS in here. but even with all the suggestions by the csr, no luck!!!

any more ideas??



BTW, THANKS EVERYONE!!!

 

[johneetrash]

i think it's messing you up because you like the lakers







i think if it's not DMA then it's the programs maybe.. or a defective burner

 

[bacillus]

you've obviously go too much going on in the background. if you're using win98/ME then stop all unecessary programs from starting in msconfig. this will increase your startup system resources!

 

[tkim]

i disabled everything by using the close program option. i leave only explore and systray running. i still get the error. it takes longer for it to come out but i stil get it.

i guess i cant use this thing at work. 🙁